Watching Corin Redgrave embody the one-time wordsmith, wit and apparent sexual fetishist KennethTynan is to open one's eyes to a kind of genius that is both scintillating and not a little sad.
The son of Britain's first woman MP Nancy Astor, he was only 29 when he took over the editorship of the Sunday paper but went on to recruit writers such as George Orwell, Arthur Koestler and KennethTynan during his 27-year tenure.